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Old 02-10-2023, 10:03 AM
 
Location: 23.7 million to 162 million miles North of Venus
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Chinese spy balloon carried equipment to collect intelligence, U.S. says


Well there goes the "It was just a weather balloon" justification for not shooting it down until AFTER it crossed over the US.



Isn't it great that they decided to wait until it was over water to make recovery easier.
The balloon passed over the Aleutian Islands. The islands are basically uninhabited. Except for a few park rangers and maybe some wanderers to the island, there is no one there. The park rangers could have been warned. They had a much better chance of the balloon hitting boaters in the Atlantic than ever hitting someone one the Aleutian Islands. Their 'excuse' of not wanting to do it over land in fears of hitting someone is False.
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Old 02-10-2023, 10:33 AM
 
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With every newscast comes new excuses, contradictions, leaving me with more unanswered questions and ZeRo faith in any of the **** being shoveled. I guess we'll just fabricate our own truths.
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Old 02-10-2023, 12:33 PM
 
Location: Hoosierville
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Default BREAKING: US shot down a 2nd balloon in last hour

Looking for a link.

They say it's an object. No details on who owns it.

WH briefing w/ John Kirby right now - size of a small car.
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Old 02-10-2023, 12:36 PM
 
Location: Hoosierville
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The first one was able to manuever.

This one was much smaller.
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Old 02-10-2023, 12:38 PM
 
Location: Hoosierville
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Object was at 40,000 feet.

That's why the potato said to shoot it down - threat to civilian aircraft.
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Old 02-10-2023, 12:38 PM
 
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Link.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6320098006112
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Old 02-10-2023, 12:42 PM
 
Location: Hoosierville
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Last one was purposefully flown with propulsion capability over the US.

We let that one go.

This one was much smaller and we shoot that one down over Alaska.

At least Biden is learning from his mistakes I guess.
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Old 02-10-2023, 12:42 PM
 
Location: Cape Cod
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If this is true how else can we look at these balloons except as spies that are probing for weakness?



A caller on a radio show I was listening to this morning said that the Chinese balloon could carry a payload of 6000 pounds! He also went on to say that the next balloon could be filled with drones. If you can remember back to the Olympics in China they had the aerial display where hundreds of drones took to the sky in formation and moved together with great intricacy and precision. Imagine the next balloon dropping 500 drones packed with explosives and they fly into our electric grid. They are so precise they could fly one through Biden's bedroom window at the White House.



The Chinese tested us with the last balloon and we failed miserably.


I just had another thought. Didn't they tell us that they couldn't track the last one but somehow they knew this much smaller balloon was coming?
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Old 02-10-2023, 12:44 PM
 
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Very very north eastern border of Alaska.

Landed on frozen water. Recovery of object will be easier than the balloon.
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Old 02-10-2023, 12:45 PM
 
Location: Hoosierville
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Kirby said he misspoke - it's an object.

Maybe a balloon.
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